light-bites

Communication that can’t be shut down

Uhm, it can definitely be shut down with enough funding. We’re at the mercy of rich people in any case.

Whether we wanted to be or not, we’re building the resistance network.

I’m sorry, but I can’t take this seriously right now. How are you resisting exactly? It’s not as if you’re building a whole new infrastructure from scratch, you’re just rearranging the same pieces over and over again and it leads to no changes in the foundation.

Self-hosting is cool, but it’s not a meaningful change in the big picture. As you saw, one manufacturer decided to do something stupid, RAM prices went up, that’s it, simple as that. And you depend on that, unless you have a way to manufacture it yourself, you’re at their mercy.

Self-hosting social networks doesn’t fix the foundational problems with online human communication right now either. It helps a bit, but fix, definitely no.

When self-hosting becomes too expensive, what can you do? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

Now, my goal is not to discourage trying, but looking at what we’re actually doing and how to actually make a change. Chasing our own tails will get us nowhere and I fear that’s what powerful people are counting on. “Go play with your cute toys, leave the toy making to us!”